Product Designer

✨ About the Company

Makeship empowers influencers, creators, and brands of all sizes to develop and launch limited-edition products that matter to their fans. Leveraging our design, manufacturing, and marketing expertise, we work with our partners to bring their products to life through our community-powered crowdfunding platform. Each product is given a window of 21 days to be funded by the community before we produce and ship to fans worldwide. We put our brand behind every product and guarantee quality and ethical sourcing.

We're profitable; we have a three-year revenue growth of over 200%, ranking us 97th in 2024 and 86th on The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Top Growing Companies of 2025 list. We are also excited to announce that Makeship has officially been Great Place to Work-Certified™ for 3 years in a row! Learn more about us at Makeship.com .

🧑‍💻 About the Role

During this exciting phase of our growth, you’ll play a huge role in shaping our culture, our process, and the future of Makeship. Every day, you’ll collaborate, learn more about the content creation space, and watch your work impact the company and the community!

We want this to be the best work experience of your life, so we’ll pay you well, offer great benefits, invest deeply in your growth, and welcome you with our branded swag. You will also be joining one of Canada's fastest-growing start-ups!

🌟 What We Are Looking For

We're looking for a Product Designer to create intuitive, valuable, and visually engaging experiences for fans looking to support the creators they love. Working within a cross-functional team alongside Product and Engineering, you'll play a key role across the full product development cycle, from problem discovery and solution design to validation and final execution. Balancing research, ideation, and high-fidelity execution, you'll focus on our fan-facing platform, ensuring every interaction is seamless, impactful, and aligned with Makeship's mission.

🚀 Your Key Responsibilities

Design valuable and usable experiences from ideation through to production-ready designs

Follow fundamentals of good UI design to create polished interfaces across all devices

Base design decisions on layout, hierarchy, typography, colour, and motion with strong rationale

Contribute to and help maintain our design system as the platform evolves

Conduct user research and usability testing to validate assumptions and inform design decisions

Partner closely with product, engineering, and brand to ship a cohesive, high-quality product

Proactively identify usability issues, both small and large, and propose solutions

🧠 What You Bring

3+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of design solutions

Experience with user research and usability testing techniques (e.g. user interviews, usability testing, assumption testing)

Strong UI craft, with an eye for layout, typography, and visual polish

Experience working within and contributing to a design system

Comfort collaborating cross-functionally with product, engineering, and marketing

Experience designing B2C products, ideally involving content discovery, browsing, or shopping-style experiences

👀 Bonus

Experience in e-commerce or crowdfunding

Experience working in the creator economy

Experience on a growth-focused team

Familiarity with accessibility standards

🎁 Benefits & Perks

Work remotely anywhere in Canada and/or access any of our hubs

Health and dental benefits from day 1

4 weeks of paid vacation (including paid time off on your birthday)

An additional 1 week of paid time off during the winter holidays

Virtual & In-Person Social Events

Annual Paid Volunteer Day Off

1:1 RRSP Matching Program Up to 3%

$500 Pre-Tax Annual Health & Wellness Allowance

$400 Pre-Tax Home Office Setup Allowance

$65 Pre-Tax Monthly Phone Allowance

Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up Program

Education Assistance Program

Employee Referral Program

Tenured Rewards Program

Salary Band: $85-100k CAD per annum. Individual salaries will be dependent on unique skills, experience and qualifications.

Vacancy Status: Existing vacancy

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• As part of our hiring process, we may use AI-powered tools to support tasks such as application screening and note-taking. These tools are used to assist our team, and all hiring decisions are made by humans .

We are committed to fair and unbiased hiring practices. If you require accommodations or have questions about how your application is assessed, please let us know.

At Makeship we are committed to fostering an environment that welcomes people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. We are passionate about building an equitable and inclusive culture for our unique and diverse team of employees which makes us Makeship. As an equal-opportunity employer, we value and embrace everyone's opinions and differences, and actively seek new Makeshippers who will work respectfully with our team, propelling our company and the community forward. If there are any accommodations we can provide to make your interview experience more accessible and inclusive, please let us know in your application.